SimpleViewer v1.2 is released. SimpleViewer is a free, customizable, flash image viewing application. New features include more customization options, flash detection and bug fixes.

Justin Ouellette of Chromogenic used SimpleViewer for his winning submission to online photography magazine 28mm. Check it out here.

The AOL
MovieGoer Awards Voting Interface is live. I developed the Flash front
end, which talks to a AOL backend for voting and tracking. Votes are stored
locally via a Shared Object. Over 7 million
votes were tallied last year, hopefully this year there will be even more.

One thing to be aware of when developing Flash projects for the
AOL browser: external
JPGs may not load. The AOL browser will convert the JPG format into the more compressed
ART file format for faster download speeds. The Flash player chokes when it
tries to load an ART file. The most reliable solution is
to convert all jpgs into swfs. Illustrator will do this for you as a batch
job.

Grant Skinner mentions the dreaded wrapping spaces bug. This is where dynamic textfields will wrap spaces on the end of a line to the
front of the next line, creating an uneven left margin. One solution
is to slightly increment the textfield’s width after setting the text. As a textfield prototype:

	TextField.prototype.unwrapSpaces = function() {
		this._width = this._width + 0.01;
	}

Just ran into this bug when using Flash’s sendAndLoad with Safari. When using the “POST” method in the Safari browser, the final character will be truncated. To work around this, add a junk variable at the start of the send object:

	submitData = new LoadVars();
	//avoid safari bug
	submitData.junk = "zzz";

SimpleViewer is a customizable flash image viewing application. Features a resizable thumbnail gallery and smart preloading. Check out a demo or download it here.

The Leviton DHC website that I developed with Cadmium Red has won a Favorite Website Award. Nice One!